15th Avenue & Cropsey Avenue
The four-way crossing of 15th Avenue and Cropsey Avenue is in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, and is also named Dr. Michael Brienza Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dyker Beach Park is 330 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cropsey Av/15 Av, is 80 feet away for the B8, X28 and X38, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Cropsey Av/15 Av, 80 feet away, for the B8, X28 and X38.
- 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Cropsey Av/15 Av B8, X28, X3880 feetB8 X28 X38
Next buses at this stop
- B8 …
- X28 …
- X38 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 1,150 feet by car along the streets.
- 1414 86th Street Gas station0.5 miles
- 221 Washington Drive Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers0.8 miles
- 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars0.9 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
- 10 people injured
- 0 people killed
- 2 of those hurt, on foot
- 1 of those hurt, on a bike
The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11228
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 11
- City Council district
- 50
- Police precinct
- 62
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Bath Beach
- Elevation
- 24 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Dr. Michael Brienza Way, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.
Trees
NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. Michael Brienza Way.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 30 signs on these blocks
- 6 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of 15th Avenue
- No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
West side of 15th Avenue
- No parking 11 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
North side of Cropsey Avenue
- No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
South side of Cropsey Avenue
- No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
- No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedFour public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 day care or pre-K site
- 1 golf course
- 1 park
- 1 playground
Schools and child care
- Youngermusik Preschool, ages 2 to 51,060 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Dyker Beach Park330 feet
- Bay 8 Playground410 feet
- Dyker Beach Park Junior Golf Center Golf course900 feet
Pharmacies
- Walgreens Pharmacy0.5 miles
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
- A signal or safety change
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:
- Cropsey Avenue & Bay 10th Street 260 feet
- Cropsey Avenue & Bay 8th Street 270 feet
- Cropsey Avenue & Bay 11th Street 520 feet
- Cropsey Avenue & Bay 7th Street 520 feet
- 15th Avenue & Bath Avenue 750 feet
- 16th Avenue & Cropsey Avenue 780 feet
- 14th Avenue & Cropsey Avenue 790 feet
- Bath Avenue & Bay 10th Street 990 feet
See every intersection along 15th Avenue or Cropsey Avenue.